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COBOL's enduring dominance
  • Oct 6, 2025

COBOL's enduring dominance

An estimated 220 billion to 800 billion lines of COBOL code remain in active use across global enterprises. Over 80% of organizations anticipate these systems will outlast their current workforce. COBOL Colleague transforms the workforce crisis into an opportunity by preserving the business intelligence embedded in your code—creating a permanent knowledge base that outlasts any individual developer.
Extracting and explaining business functions from COBOL
  • Aug 16, 2025

Extracting and explaining business functions from COBOL

Your COBOL systems support the most critical objectives of your business. Phase Change Software LLC's COBOL Colleague captures institutional knowledge automatically by slicing your code to reveal complete business functions—every derivation, condition, and dependency that influences each output field. Instead of spending months documenting systems, our AI extracts […]
How COBOL Code can benefit from machine learning insight
  • Oct 24, 2022

How COBOL Code can benefit from machine learning insight

Most dev tools are not yet capable of identifying the specific lines of code that need to be changed, and unearthing that information is hard cognitive work. While some tools can help improve productivity by suggesting what code to write, software developers still have to use their brains to add new features, fix bugs, implement […]